May 7: Hexatonicism and mixed collections in jazz

 

Discussion of Cohn, Waters and Williams.

 

Audio excerpts for May 7

 

Assignment 4 (due May 14):

Neo-Riemannian analysis

Guidelines in Word, score in pdf

Guidelines and score in pdf

 

Assignment 5 (due June 4):

Guidelines in word, pdf

Scores and tonnetz

 

Audio excerpts for May 14 and Assignment 5


Readings for May 14:

 

Almén, Byron. "Narrative Archetypes: A Critique, Theory, and Method of Narrative Analysis," Journal of Music Theory 47 (2003): 1–39.

 

Nicholas Reyland, "Livre or Symphony? Lutoslawski's Livre pour orchestre and the Enigma of Musical Narrativity," Music Analysis, 27/ii-iii (2008), 253–94.